taking a break from writing essays.

[noelia_g]

I spend a lot of time justifying the things I like to people. I think most of us in fandom do. Explaining that yes, there is something worthwile in shows called 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer', and no, science fiction is not all about robots and space and explosions. And I've given up on trying to explain fanfic and slash to people outside of fandom,

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[cousinmary]

I watch every end of days/post apocalyptic movie I come across, no matter how bad. It's a sickness, but I love them.

The fanfic thing, yeah, if someone doesn't already know what it is it's usually a mistake to try to explain it. Telling people I'm spending my free time writing a Buffy/Batman xover... Oh, the looks I get.

[novin_ha]

What's GQMF?

I still watch SPN. The art of self-justification is alive and well.

[noelia_g]

GQ Motherfucker. GQ as in the magazine. it's supposed to be a positive statement on someone's dashing good looks, usually used in a 'look at this gq motherfucker' phrase, followed by a lenghty complimentary rant with lots of swear words.

I find it kind of funny, but would like to know where this particular meme comes from :D

I'm dropping SPN this season. I stuck through this season to see if the plot would get interesting, but MEH.

[novin_ha]

It still has the pretty ;_;

(Although this might be my denial re: Ruby speaking.)

[noelia_g]

It does, and I'll go through a lot for the pretty, but I've reached my treshold. And I'm not looking back, just in case.

[ellestra]

Sometimes I feel like watching/ reading something that doesn't require any brain cells to comprehend. That feeling makes me dig out Eddings' books where all the heroes are stereotypes and the story is so predictable that you feel like you've read it before even the first time. Or watch movie like Underworld where all I can remember afterwards is that the heroes posed really pretty and there where some cool fights. But in that state of mind I actually enjoy it (although these are the things I would avoid in any other circumstances like a plague). Maybe because it's pretty and predictable and ends happily and... I don't know. I just know for sure lots of people like it - just look at the box office and book sales of stuff like Independence Day and Terry Goodkind.

I don't worry about people who judge me for liking SF and Fantasy because not all SF&F is like that. The things I'm really into isn't and if someone equates all SF&F with stuff like Twilight I judge them.

Hope that was helpful.

[aries11]

I've gotten a little too defensive of my fandoms in the past, which is why now I don't get as much as I probably should. In my early days of being a Harry Potter fan and realizing I was an R/Hr shipper, I would get a little worked up any time someone suggested the idea of Harry and Hermione getting together.

More recently, my mom and brother-in-law take every opportunity they can to complain about "CSI: NY" being too melodramatic, and it annoys me to no end, but I don't say anything because I know they'll look at me weird for getting bent out of shape over something that in the grand scheme of things isn't that big a deal.

I don't know if any of that was what you were talking about, but I thought I'd at least try to offer my two cents.

[rainbow_goddess]

I don't know what GQMF stands for, so please enlighten me!

[noelia_g]

GQ Motherfucker (GQ as in the magazine), apparently. It's used as a compliment of someone's good looks, from what I've seen around the net. I grow curious when something like this spreads around :D